Having professed its cluelessness, the Chorus makes one inference—that there must be some longstanding but heretofore unknown conflict between the ruling families of Corinth and Thebes. To its mind this explanation alone offers grounds for the sudden outbreak of animosity between these two men. Yet its own poeticaly disjointed language seems to be more aware of the cause, which consisted in “lying beside,” a physical attitude suggestive of sexual relations, first the forbidden intercourse between Laios and his wife, then the tabu relations between Laios’ son and that same woman. The Chorus has accurately identified what has come between Oidipous and Kreon with the family’s propensity for misconduct against both gods and mortals. [Gd] [Apcmu] [Md]